Gig Harbor, Pierce County
In Gig Harbor, air duct cleaning begins at $535. What pushes a house above that floor is its layout: how many registers it has, how far the trunk lines run, a second furnace or heat pump. We open and clean each supply and return run while a collector holds the whole system under negative pressure. It is worth the money in specific cases, and we tell you plainly when your home is not one of them.
Typical investment
From $535
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Gig Harbor homes.
Level 1 or Level 2 as needed; Level 2 includes a camera run through the entire flue
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Top-to-bottom brushing of flue and firebox under drop cloths, with a HEPA vacuum pulling the dust
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Loose or damaged brick, open joints and firebox panels repaired
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A full-length stainless-steel or cast liner, firebox to chimney top
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A stainless cap sized to your actual flue dimensions
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Burner, pilot assembly and valve cleaned and adjusted
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Requests here tend to come from forced-air houses on the peninsula, where a system may have run for twenty years or more without anyone opening the ducts. Homes whose ductwork runs through a crawl space or an unheated garage are the likelier candidates for a cleaning that actually removes something.
Gig Harbor sits on its own bay of Puget Sound, on a peninsula reached from Tacoma by the Narrows Bridge. Outdoor air here is usually clean. In 2023 the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency logged Pierce County's air as good on 272 days, moderate on 90 and unhealthy on only 3.
So the reasons to clean ducts usually start inside the house. On a home by the water, the likelier culprits are damp and construction dust, and those are what we look for when we open the registers.
Every air duct cleaning we do in Gig Harbor includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowThe good reasons to clean ducts are concrete: a remodel that sent drywall dust into the returns, a leak or flood that wet the ductwork, visible mold at a register, rodents or insects, or a previous owner who smoked indoors. Absent one of those, swapping the filter on schedule helps indoor air more than opening the ducts would. We open a few registers first and show you what is inside.
A few registers and the return come off first, and we say honestly whether a cleaning will change anything.
We cover the registers and hook a vacuum collector to the trunk, so whatever the brushes knock loose leaves the house.
Brushes and air whips work through supply and return lines; registers and grilles are washed.
Photos before and after, a note on the right filter, and anything we noticed at the blower.
OSU Extension describes the Pacific Northwest as moist enough for roof moss to keep debris wet against shingles. Indoors, the same damp finds ductwork: runs through a crawl space or garage, or ducts soaked during a leak, are where a musty smell or mold at a register tends to start.
Census estimates put the median Gig Harbor home at 1998, so many systems here are twenty-plus years old and have never been opened. Where we find damp inside the ducts, we point you to the water source first, since cleaning without fixing it only buys time.
What this work is quoted at for Gig Harbor homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Gig Harbor | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Air Duct Cleaning | From $535 | Whole HVAC system — trunks, branches and every register |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Relining | From $1,900 | Full-length stainless liner, sized to the appliance |
| Chimney Repair | From $375 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Gig Harbor. The exact figure is set on site after a $99 inspection (credited toward the job if you go ahead), and you approve it before any work starts.
Gig Harbor is a harbor town incorporated in 1946, settled early by a Croatian fishing community on the west side and Scandinavians at the north end, on the Gig Harbor bay, on Puget Sound, with mostly newer homes — a median build year of 1998, fewer than a quarter built before 1980.
Gig HarborPierce County, WA · 47.329, -122.581
Before and after
Illustrations of what each repair changes on a typical chimney — not photos of a specific job.
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Four steps, each one on paper — so you always know what happens next.
Choose a genuine opening on the crew's calendar. Confirmation is immediate.
Liner, crown, cap, flashing and masonry examined in order — each finding photographed.
One document, plain numbers, covering only the work your chimney genuinely needs.
The repair is completed, then handed over with before-and-after photos of every item.
The floor is $535. Houses with many registers, long trunk runs or two systems land higher, and we fix the figure after seeing the layout.
No calendar applies. The trigger is contamination: remodel debris, a flood, mold growth, rodents. Short of that, a fresh filter every few months is the better spend.
Very little. Smoky air enters through doors, windows and fresh-air intakes, and clean ducts cannot stop it. On those days a tight filter and closed windows are what help.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
